三、三大悖论重要思想
阿泰尔以他的智慧闻名,这得益于他无数次研究苹果的智慧以及笔耕不辍地记录自己的思考,写下了著名的阿泰尔手札。
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What follows are the three great ironies of the Assassin Order: (1) Here we seek to promote peace, but murder is our means. (2) Here we seek to open the minds of men, but require obedience to a master and set of rules. (3) Here we seek to reveal the danger of blind faith, yet we are practitioners ourselves.
对我们的刺客戒规,有三个很重要的反讽:(1)我们戳力于追求和平,但谋杀是我们的手段。(2)我们投身于解放人心,但要求服从规则与师训。(3)我们致力于揭示盲信之危险,但我们自己就是教义的执行人。
I have no satisfactory answer to these charges, only possibilities... Do we bend the rules in service to a greater good? And if we do, what does it say of us? That we are liars? That we are frauds? That we are weak? Every moment is spent wrestling with these contradictions and in spite of all the years I've had to reflect, still I can find no suitable answer... And I fear that one may not exist.
对这些指责我没有能令人满意的反驳,只有假设……我们是否为了大善而扭曲了规则?而即使是这样,又如何?我们是骗子?我们是冒牌货?我们是软弱的?经过了这么多年的沉思,耗费了无数的时间来与这些定义角力,到现在我依然没有合适的答案……我恐怕这样的答案也并不存在。
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. Does our creed provide the answer, then? That one may be two things – opposite in every way – simultaneously? And why not? Am I not proof? We of noble intentions, possessed of barbaric means? We who celebrate the sanctity of life and then promptly take it from those we deem our enemies?
万物皆虚,万事皆允。或者我们的信条提供了答案?个体可以同时是两面——在任何方面都相反——的。为何不可?我没有证明吗?我们不是用野蛮的手段追求崇高的目的吗?我们不是既庆祝生命的神圣,又把它从视为敌人的人那里随意夺走吗?
这便是阿泰尔提出的著名的【三大悖论】,而这也为刺客们提供了行为准则。参考《刺客信条:可汗陵》现代中国刺客燕玫说道:阿泰尔的【反道】(猜测应为阿泰尔的悖论,翻译成反道)带给我们力量(原句忘了?),由此可见,由阿泰尔的三大悖论引发的思考对于刺客如何行动,如何在教条与自由之间找到平衡点有很大的帮助和启示。阿泰尔的三大悖论重要思想回答了“什么是教条和怎么贯彻教条”的问题,即:刺客组织必须代表和平的发展要求,必须代表自由的前进方向,必须要成员依靠自己的自由意识。